[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting exoplanet transits could start a galactic communications network.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the connections between eating and identity.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas looks at the need for a critical study of the relationship between technology and democracy.


• Language Hat notes how nationalism split Hindustani into separate Hindi and Urdu languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on the grim outlook in Somalia after the terrible recent Mogadishu bombing.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen thinks Trump's decertification of the Iran deal is a bad idea.


• The Map Room Blog links to an article imagining a counter-mapping of the Amazon by indigenous peoples.


• Neuroskeptic considers the possibility of Parkinson's being a prion disease, somewhat like mad cow disease.


• The NYR Daily notes that a Brexit driven by a perceived need to take back control will not meet that need, at all.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at the problem Sydney faces as it booms.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the extent to which an independent Catalonia would be ravaged economically by a non-negotiated secession.


• Peter Watts tells the sad story of an encounter between Toronto police and a homeless man he knows.


• Window on Eurasia notes a Sakhalin bridge, like a Crimea bridge, may not come off because of Russian weakness.